Vampire and Vampire Lord

Necropolis creatures
Level 1
Skeleton
Skeleton Warrior
Level 2
Walking Dead
Zombie
Level 3
Wight
Wraith
Level 4
Vampire
Vampire Lord
Level 5
Lich
Power Lich
Level 6
Black Knight
Dread Knight
Level 7
Bone Dragon
Ghost Dragon
Towns

Statistics
Vampire
Cost per troop  360
	Attack 10 Defense 9 Damage 5–8 Health 30 Speed 6 Movement Flying Size 1 Growth 4 AI Value 555
Special abilities:
• Undead • No enemy retaliation
Vampire Lord
Cost per troop  500
	Attack 10 Defense 10 Damage 5–8 Health 40 Speed 9 Movement Flying Size 1 Growth 4 AI Value 783
Special abilities:
• Undead • No enemy retaliation • Life drain

Vampires and Vampire Lords are level 4 creatures of Necropolis town. They are recruited from the Estate.

"The attacks of vampires and vampire lords cannot be retaliated against. Vampire Lords are able to resurrect members of their own troops by replenishing health equal to the amount of damage they inflict on others." ^{RoE manual}

Undead, Elementals and Golems have no life to be drained.

Life drain special ability

Vampire Lords' life drain special ability occurs after the stack has attacked and before the target stack has a chance to retaliate. It raises killed Vampire Lords from the dead for the same amount of health points as the stack inflicted damage, and the top unit is healed with the remainder. The ability functions in a similar way to Animate Dead spell (or Resurrection). However, no more than the amount of total health points of the target stack can be drained. As the ability name suggests, target attacked creature stack must be considered to be alive. This means that the ability does not work on non-living creatures.

Creatures immune to life drain:

Elementals:	Undead:
Air and Storm Elementals   Water and Ice Elementals   Fire and Energy Elementals   Earth and Magma Elementals   Psychic and Magic Elementals Gargoyles:   Stone and Obsidian Gargoyles Golems:   Stone and Iron Golems  Gold Golem  Diamond Golem	Skeleton and Skeleton Warrior   Walking Dead and Zombie   Wight and Wraith   Vampire and Vampire Lord   Lich and Power Lich   Black and Dread Knights   Bone and Ghost Dragons  Mummy

Heroes with a specialty

• Vokial the Death Knight has vampires as a specialty, which increases the Attack and Defense skills of any Vampires or Vampire Lords for each level attained after 4th level and gives them a speed bonus of 1.

See also:

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• List of creatures
• List of creatures (HotA)